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materialist feminism is a kind of generalized term for critical/theoretical/philosophical perspectives in or adjacent to second-wave and so-called radical feminism that adapt the methods of analysis of Marxism and dialectical materialism, or methods like them, to addressing patriarchy head on as a constructed material system of real social relations (and not, for instance, just a personal attitude of sexism).

People whose work I would associate with this label would include:

Catharine McKinnon, associate of Andrea Dworkin and 1970s-80s firebrand of radical feminism, notable for being the most prominent cisgender feminist academic of that period who is still a source of sensible feminist analysis about the constructed [i.e., not "natural," "biological"] status of male power and coerced heterosexual sex-gender relations, and not an insane transphobic conservative, and the source of this memorable quote:

Shulamith Firestone, author of Dialectic of Sex, and people who have played with her arguments from there including the pseudonymous Laboria Cuboniks, author of Xenofeminist Manifesto.

Sylvia Federici, Nancy Hartsock, Sophie Lewis (especially her), and other thinkers affiliated with what is known as Social Reproduction Theory, i.e. the extension of Marxist political-economic theory and the philosophical analysis of labour relations to the domestic labour relations governing the reproduction of daily life (check out this Lewis interview where she lays out the significance and origin of SRT), in which the working class and its available labour-power that the capitalist class appropriates and uses to produce its capital and its social domination is itself a product of the care and reproductive work of invisibilized domestic labour.

Talia Bhatt's blog and book Trans/Rad/Fem is a source of excellent foundational transfeminist analysis that applies a rigorous insistence on examining the actual material situation of (trans) women's oppression, and does a good job breaking through the narrow insistence on limiting feminist concern to a particular perspective of petit-bourgeois white women in the core countries of the imperialist capitalist bourgeoisie.

No, not all data centers are AI. The Cloud is made of real computers in a building, and data centers are that building. I am also concerned about many of these projects, especially when they're replacing a park or something, but the issue is more nuanced than "data centers are bad".

There's also one guy who always insists that the data centers are being built so the government can spy on people, so I keep having to remind them that a data center is just a box that you put data into. A data center does not expose you to any new privacy concerns, it just means that your private data might be physically stored closer to your house.

like, no, it's literally in the name "Assigned Gender At Birth" it's an event, something that happened to you.

you did not "grow up AMAB". you're not different from any other man just because you were AFAB.

Harpies who can't write or type or open most containers with their wings. Werewolves who worry about hurting someone if they get overstimulated at the wrong time. Minotaurs with digestive systems and metabolisms which require grazing throughout the day, not the three big meals humans are used to.

Lamias who have to stay home in the evenings and during cold months to stay warm, otherwise their muscles stop working right and they get stranded. And they're sick of their human friends suggesting they get some kind of tail sweater. It wouldn't help, the problem is that their body doesn't produce enough heat to begin with, and anyways a tail garment would get in the way of their rectilinear locomotion, and there's no way a sweater would survive being walked on in the first place. It feels like they don't actually care about you being stuck at home whenever they go out, they just want to feel like it's not their fault they never see you.

often humans will ask the fairy why they are doing things "the wrong way" and won't take "because it's what works for me" as a valid answer, the humans will get insulted if it is insinuated that the way they have always done things won't work for the fairies, the humans will call the fairies stupid and lazy when the fairy tries to do things their way and fail

the robot girl who cant truly understand human emotion, like logically she can sus out what emotions a human is feeling and why, she has learned when she is supposed to display what emotions, usually at least, but because she does not actually feel them, she sometimes gets it wrong and the social punishment for displaying the wrong emotion at the wrong time, especially at delicate times when the right emotion is logically confusing is often disastrous

a slime girl who can never keep memories for longer than a year or so, and her snece of identity is as fluid as her body is

a ghost girl who just cant let things go

when Batou says the ends justify the means, we're supposed to take this as fact, something he learned due to years of law enforcement experience, something that's sad but undeniably true. the guy in the car with him who believes rules need to be followed only believes this because he's young and inexperienced and naive. the narrative (read: the author) will prove that this is correct, again and again.

and any time i complain or point out this constant pattern, I'm sowing division, im evil and hate trans men (because of course that's totally what TME means), I'm threatened, bullied, ignored.